Monday, February 26, 2018

Math Of Turbulence

Mathematicians classify partial differential equations like
Navier-Stokes based on the extent to which they can go haywire at
infinitesimally small scales. Navier-Stokes is on the extreme end of the
spectrum. The difficulty of the mathematics of the equation is, in some
sense, an exact reflection of the complexity of the turbulent flows
they’re supposed to be able to describe.